To the members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh.

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
[1824]
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    To the Members of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, Gentlemen, I beg leave to submit to you the following Hints on the alterations respecting Medical Degrees, which have been submitted by the Medical Faculty to the Senatus Academicus, and which they wish to be taken into consideration in the month of October. First, On the course of Study suggested by the Medical Faculty it is not necessary to offer any extended observations. If every Medical Graduate of our College were, like the Doctors of Medicine of the two English Universities, to act exclusively as a Physician, the course of Study recommended by the Medical Faculty must be allowed to be defective in many respects. But it is a fact quite undeniable, that a very large proportion of those who graduate at the University of Edinburgh settle as Surgeons and Apothecaries, in proof of which it is sufficient to state, that while, during the last ten years, One Thousand and Ten Gentlemen have graduated here as Doctors of Medicine, the number of Medical Graduates at the two English Universities of Ox- ford and Cambridge has, during the same period, not exceeded Fortv- one, viz. Twenty-four at Oxford, and Seventeen at Cambridge. From this fact, and other circumstances which might be mentioned, the inference is, that a Medical Degree from our College is regarded chiefly